DebConf18 closes in Hsinchu and DebConf19 dates announced

August 5th, 2018

Today, Sunday 5 August 2018, the annual Debian Developers
and Contributors Conference came to a close.
With over 306 people attending from all over the world,
and 137 events including 100 talks, 25 discussion sessions or BoFs,
5 workshops and 7 other activities,
DebConf18 has been hailed as a success.

Highlights included DebCamp with more than 90 participants,
the Open Day,
where events of interest to a broader audience were offered,
plenaries like the traditional Bits from the DPL,
a Questions and Answers session with Minister Audrey Tang,
a panel discussion about "Ignoring negativity" with Bdale Garbee, Chris Lamb, Enrico Zini and Steve McIntyre,
the talk "That's a free software issue!!" given by Molly de Blanc and Karen Sandler,
lightning talks and live demos
and the announcement of next year's DebConf
(DebConf19 in Curitiba, Brazil).

The schedule
has been updated every day, including 27 ad-hoc new activities, planned
by attendees during the whole conference.

For those not able to attend, most talks and sessions were recorded and live streamed,
and videos are being made available at the
Debian meetings archive website.
Many sessions also facilitated remote participation via IRC or a collaborative text document.

The DebConf18 website
will remain active for archive purposes, and will continue to offer
links to the presentations and videos of talks and events.

Next year, DebConf19 will be held in Curitiba, Brazil, from
21 July to 28 July, 2019. It will be the second DebConf held in Brazil (first one was DebConf4 in
Porto Alegre).
For the days before DebConf the local organisers will again set up DebCamp
(13 July – 19 July),
a session for some intense work on improving the distribution,
and organise the Open Day on 20 July 2019, open to the general public.

About Debian

The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and
supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the
universal operating system.

About DebConf

DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a
full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an
opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to
meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place
annually since 2000 in locations as varied as Scotland, Argentina, and
Bosnia and Herzegovina. More information about DebConf is available from
https://debconf.org.

About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
is an industry-leading technology company
providing a comprehensive portfolio of products such as
integrated systems, servers, storage, networking and software.
The company offers consulting, operational support, financial services,
and complete solutions for many different industries: mobile and IoT,
data & analytics and the manufacturing or public sectors among others.

HPE is also a development partner of Debian,
and providing hardware for port development, Debian mirrors, and other Debian services
(hardware donations are listed in the Debian machines page).